Pre-Owned The Secret Scripture (Paperback)

Traditional Chinese edition of The Secret Scripture, by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry. The book is the winner of the 2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Costa Award, and short listed for the Man Booker Prize. This is a parallel story told by a 100 year-old woman who has been committed to a mental asylum for more than 50 years, and her psychiatrist who contemplates which of his patients are healthy enough to be released into the community when the hospital is demolished. The two stories of the woman only have one commonality - that she was a victim of circumstance. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne faces an uncertain future, as the mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship intensifies as he mourns the death of his wife.